Bathing Machines
Bather using a bathing machine on Gorleston beach, c. 1903/1904
Courtesy of Donald Shields
Early Bathing Machines
By Richard Dade
An Interview describing the old bathing machines
"The daring people who did swim did actually use the old bathing machines and I can remember them quite clearly, yes... (This was Yarmouth?)Yes this was Yarmouth there was some just south of the Britannia Pier and I remember as a naughty little boy they had big cart wheels at the back and smaller ones for steering at the front and they were pulled in by horses and I remember climbing up on the big cart wheels at the back trying to peep through the little slotted windows when I was a little boy."